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* * BLTJE-CBOWNED MOTMOT. Momotus cceruleiceps Gould. Geog. Dist. 

 Eastern Mexico, north to Rio Grande Valley. 



The Motmots, or Sawbills, as they are called, is a family of twelve or fifteen 

 species inhabiting tropical America, the present species coming very near our border 



PARADISE TROGAN, Pharomaerus tnocinno (After MicheleO. 



in the Rio Grande Valley. They are birds v of striking plumage, the general color 

 being plain greenish, tinged with olive; the ear-coverets are rather lengthened and 

 stiffened and chiefly black, but partly blue. They have lengthened and usually spatu- 

 late middle tail-feathers, blue except the tips, where they are black. The head of the 



